Caregiver Support Intake Form Template

This caregiver support intake form helps a support team understand what an adult unpaid caregiver wants help with first. Seven optional questions cover existing help, a practical priority, barriers to accessing support, and a preferred follow-up route.

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This caregiver support intake form helps a support team understand what an adult unpaid caregiver wants help with first. Seven optional questions cover existing help, a practical priority, barriers to accessing support, and a preferred follow-up route.

Caregiving arrangements differ from one household to the next. A short intake can make the first conversation more useful without asking for the care recipient’s medical history. Adapt this SurveyLegend questionnaire to the resources your service actually provides.

When to Use This Template

Use the form when a caregiver first approaches a resource-navigation, peer-support or practical-help service. The caregiver is the respondent, and the focus is support for that person. Other healthcare templates address patient experiences; this form does not assess treatment or the care recipient's condition.

7 Caregiver Support Intake Form Questions

Tell the support team what would make a first conversation useful for you. All seven questions are optional. Do not include the name, diagnosis or medical records of the person you support. This example is not monitored for urgent needs and does not enroll you in a service.

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Caregiver Support Intake Form

01 Which description best fits your unpaid caregiving situation?

Choose one answer, or skip this question.

02 What would you most like help with at a first conversation?

Choose one answer, or skip this question.

03 How much of the practical help you currently need is available to you?

Choose one answer, or skip this question.

04 What most gets in the way of using support services?

Choose one answer, or skip this question.

05 What would you like the team to understand about your next two weeks?

Share your answer, or skip this question.

06 Which format would you prefer for an initial conversation?

Choose one answer, or skip this question.

07 What name and contact detail may the support team use, and are there times they should avoid?

Share your answer, or skip this question.

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How to Adapt the Questionnaire

List only support areas your team can discuss or signpost responsibly. Explain the service's scope, who reviews the form, expected contact arrangements, and how to reach the team another way. Keep the care recipient’s identifying details out of this first step. Before adding personal questions, review the principles for sensitive questions and collect only what the conversation requires.

When to Ask

Share it before the first support conversation, with an option to complete it together. Avoid making form completion a prerequisite to asking for help. Revisit the priority at the conversation because a caregiver's immediate circumstances may have changed.

How to Use the Responses

Start with the priority in question 2, then use questions 3 and 4 to explore why useful support is missing or difficult to reach. Someone with little available help may still prefer information before a service referral. Confirm that preference. Do not calculate a burden score or infer the safety of a care arrangement. For service planning, summarize recurring barriers without identifying caregivers or the people they support.

What the Research Adds

Black and colleagues (2013) examined baseline data from 246 informal caregivers in Baltimore. Their abstract identifies unmet needs for “resource referrals and caregiver education.” That finding supports asking separately about the help someone wants and the barriers to reaching it. Read the caregiver unmet-needs study . The study involved dementia caregiving; this broader intake is an original conversation aid, not its clinical needs assessment.

Frequently asked questions

Who should fill this out?

The adult unpaid caregiver seeking support should answer for themselves. This version is not a patient intake or a questionnaire for professional care staff.

Does the form enroll someone in a service?

No. It prepares a conversation. Explain the actual next step and confirm availability before suggesting that any support has been arranged.

Can a staff member help complete it?

Yes, if the caregiver wants assistance. Record the caregiver’s answers without substituting the staff member’s judgment, and allow any question to be skipped.

Printable Caregiver Support Intake Form

Provide the exact seven fields as a readable paper intake, with extra space for the two written answers and contact preferences. Offer assisted completion and give a specific staff recipient or private return route. Store and review completed paper through the service's agreed process. Paper responses need separate review or manual entry; they are not automatically added to online results.

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